Asians like to share photos while Europeans keep them private, study finds

As online social sharing becomes increasingly common in connected societies around the world, the differences in how different cultures approach it can be fascinating. Case in point: Nokia has published someresearchfromCinttoday, which looks at mobile photography habits of 8000 people across 8 countries: China; the Philippines; the USA; Sweden; Singapore; India; Italy and Switzerland. Probably the most interesting finding is the stark difference in how people in the Asian countries surveyed dealt with their photos, compared to the European countries....

2 min · 394 words · Darryl Morton

Ask USA TODAY, newspapers aren’t dying, they’re just moving to Flipboard

Flipboard has announced USA TODAY is the first nationwide newspaper on its iPad app. Last month whenFlipboard CEO Mike McCue stated, The web will feel a lot different in 5 years. It will feel a lot like print,” perhaps in part he was speaking of adding print publishers, such as USA TODAY, to Flipboard’s already stellar lineup of partners. Partners who, when combined with other content available on the Flipboard,have propelled the companyto 550 million views per month, with over 3....

2 min · 255 words · Lauren Reed

Asking you to work for free is not an opportunity. It’s an insult.

Joan Westenberg is an award winning Australian contemporary writer, designer and creative director. She’s the founder of branding and advertising firm Studio Self and was named one of the leading startup voices in Australia by SmartCompany. The other day, I sat down for a meeting with an entrepreneur looking for a marketer and content writer. A mutual friend had put us in touch, and before our session, I had provided him with a clear breakdown of my fees and estimates....

4 min · 852 words · Kathleen Hart

AskMeEvery is a personal polling app for anything you want to track

During the course of a day you’re probably asked a few hundred questions by people such as “How are you?” “What are you doing?”, or “Was today a slow news day?”. Ok, maybe not the last one. That’s where AskMeEvery steps in. AskMeEveryis a personal polling site that will text you a question every day at a certain time, and you can respond via a regular text message. It will track your answers over time and give you a lovely graph....

2 min · 337 words · Angela Bryant

ASMR has been around for 10 crinkly years — here’s what we know about it now

ASMR has been around for 10 crinkly years — here’s what we know about it now Common triggers ASMR isn’t something that everyone experiences but, for those that do, we now know there are consistencies in what they report. First, we know that ASMR typically emerges in childhood (common early examples are feeling tingles during lice checks at school, or when playing the guessing game of “what letter am I tracing on your back?...

4 min · 762 words · Christina Davis
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